On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
>
> > i hope that you will like the new autoconf-2.5x/automake-1.6-ed package. i
> > also hope that the wget maintainer will consider accepting this patch.
>
> 1. There is no current wget maintainer. Your CVS tree has a good chance
> of becoming the official one if you want to.
i'll contact the coordinators of the GNU project ASAP, then.
> 2. Care to elaborate on why you introduced automake in wget?
it makes the sources __MUCH__ easier to maintain, believe me. you
only need 6 months (i am __definitely__ not joking here) to understand
how the automake/autoconf/libtool/gettext stuff works and then
> I have a feeling this is not what earlier wget hackers would've wanted.
i have the same feeling of yours. and i can't understand why the wget
developers didn't use automake.
in fact, if you take a look at the Makefile.in's generated by automake in
my package you'll see that they aren't much different from the original
Makefile.in's contained in wget-1.9beta, so why bother maintaining files
that could be automatically generated from automake?
moreover:
1) the Makefile.in's generated by automake have more functions (like the
very useful make maintainer-clean)
2) automake provides a seamless integration with libtool
3) with automake is much easier to build the texi documentation and also
to generate html, ps and pdf docs
4) automake supports automatic de-ANSI-fication (which personally, i
hate, but many other developers like)
5) with automake it is easier to generate and check tarballs
is this enough? ;-)
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